Cruise line fails health inspection; stored food in crew cabins

Silversea, a cruise line that boasts of its gourmet food and small ships that pamper a passenger load of only 300 or so at $5,000 a week per person, failed a Centers for Disease Control inspection. Among other lapses: Ship managers were ordering food be stored in crew quarters. CNN video below.

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The inspectors “poured chlorine liquid to prevent the discarded food from being reused.” Considering the fact they were storing raw meat and cheese in non-refrigerated crew quarters, I wouldn’t be surprised if they DID reuse the chlorine marinated food. Just another reason to avoid these floating petri dishes.

This is not the way by all Cruise lines are to be judged. Having been on several cruises, I have never had a bad experience. I have never heard of this cruise line. The may have paid a lot of money for that one week – but they didnt get their monies worth. You are better off going with a big name cruise line; Royal Carribean, Princess, Carinval.

I would respectfully disagree, I’ve been on more than a dozen cruises, and the smaller ships are better able to control quality and address health concerns. The Silvesea issue is an anomaly. Millions of people have cruised without incident – well, since the Titanic, that is. Still, cruising is safer than driving your car on a Saturday night around Saratoga in August.

So safe… ships adrift with no power…crashing into reefs…legionnaire’s disease…and when it happens….
all 4,000 of you can’t exactly walk out…of course since you’re so bloated from overeating, you probably can’t actually walk at all…You people can keep your cruises….

The press has been giving the cruise industry a free pass for some time now. The ships are registered to countries that no one has ever heard of. The employees of these ships live on the ships and a good amount of them are from depressed countries and will do anything to have a job.
I do not know what their living conditions on board these ships are but with no rules it would be interesting to find out.
The news of sickness on these ships occurring has been happening for some time, it would be interesting to find out the real reasons a to why it occurs as much as it does.

My son is a musician on the Queen Mary 2 and has started a protest inc. a petition and meetings with those in charge of food on board due to the unhealthy nature of the food that employees are served. Frequently greasy, an overall lack of fresh produce, unhealthy preparations, no regard for nutrition and more are some of the reasons why. So even on the highest end ships, meal content and food prep is an issue. The first thing he does when he gets to a port is to find a good meal off the ship in town.